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Barns At Court Farm Buckland Lane Great Elm Frome Somerset BA11 3NS

2018/2044/PAAPrior App CoU Agricult. to ResidentialRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 10 October 2018

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval for a proposed change of use of 2no. agricultural buildings to 2no. larger dwellinghouses and 3no. smaller dwellinghouses (Class C3) and for the associated operational development.

Received
13 August 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Mendip
Ward
Ammerdown (Historic)
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated16 Aug
  3. Consult.10 Sep
  4. Target11 Oct
  5. Decided10 Oct

Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Barns At Court Farm Buckland Lane Great Elm Frome Somerset BA11 3NS. Mendip has handled 535 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 9 days longer than Mendip's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,500 applications in total for the BA11 postcode area.

77% of outline applications at Mendip were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BA11 3NS
Application type
Prior App CoU Agricult. to Residential
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Elm Parish Meeting

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 August 2018
Consultation expiry
10 September 2018
Consultation start
20 August 2018
Consultation end
10 September 2018
Target decision date
11 October 2018
Permission expires
10 October 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Knight Frank
Agent address
27A Regent House Regent Street Clifton Bristol BS8 4HR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
17
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Mendip

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